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The Registrar General's Department (RGD) is taking its outreach programme to Toronto, Canada in November.Jamaicans living in Toronto and its environs will get an opportunity to interact with RGD personnel on Thursday, November 9, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Jamaican Consulate General, 303 Eglinton Avenue East. The RGD team will inform Jamaican/Canadians about the variety of services...

Prime Minister, The Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has dismissed suggestions that the imposition of the new passport requirement by the United States is linked to CARICOM's collective decision to support Venezuela for the non-member seat on the UN's Security Council. Speaking at a press conference in Antigua last evening (October 30),Mrs. Simpson Miller emphasized that the US decision was...

The Jamaican Government has benefited from more than $7.5 billion in development support from the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for the four-year period January 2007 to 2011. The five key areas to be addressed are education, HIV/AIDS, poverty and the environment, health and justice, peace and security. The money will be allocated through the relevant Ministries. Minister of...

The West Indian Foundation in New York has presented its 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Basil K. Bryan, Jamaica's Consul General to that city, for his years of dedicated service to the West Indian community. The presentation was made at a function held at the Hilton Hotel in Hartford, Connecticut on October 25, where a number of other Caribbean...

Minister of Education and Youth, Maxine Henry Wilson has urged Jamaican students attending universities in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia to promote the positive values of their homeland. "Jamaicans do have a legacy of positive contributions and I call upon you to reinforce these values," she stressed. The Minister was addressing more than 200 students from 19 universities and colleges...

Jamaican businessman Michael Lee-Chin, is the 2006 Distinguished Awardee of the Chicago Concerned Jamaicans Inc. in recognition of his outstanding philanthropic work. He will be presented with the award at the organization's 19th annual dinner and gala to be held on Saturday (Nov. 4) at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Chicago, where he will also be the guest speaker....

The ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 frenzy has gripped the campus of Sam Sharpe Teachers' College in St. James, where some 150 students and lecturers have signed up to participate in the Volunteer Programme for Jamaica's leg of the event. "Who better than those who shape the minds of the next generation to participate in the programme," Manager of...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, through its Agricultural Support Services Project (ASSP) will be pumping some $75 million in three income generating projects this fiscal year, to benefit 97 farmers in three parishes. Audrey Wright, Technical Officer for the project, tells JIS News that, "we selected a number of farmers, who will be involved in three projects at Amity...

As the forces of globalization continue to affect the region, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, has said that the establishment of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) provided a vehicle through which the region could successfully counter its effects. She asserted that the region "must now stand even more firmly as an economic bloc and devise and implement strategies...

Minister of Housing, Transport, Water and Works, Robert Pickersgill, has pointed to the country's strides in advancing human development, including reduced poverty and increased access to health and education. The Minister, who was addressing the Jamaican (Ottawa) Community Association's 17th annual heroes' banquet and awards gala recently in Canada, informed that 93 per cent of Jamaicans now had access to...

With nine countries of the Caribbean region poised to host the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Cricket World Cup (CWC), in March next year, State Minister for National Security, Dr. Donald Rhodd, has informed that further initiatives were now being finalised to improve border security. "Border security as it relates to this event is of paramount importance.to ensure that all citizens...

The National Works Agency (NWA) will be repairing 295 kilometres of roadway in Portland, as part of a pilot road rehabilitation project to be implemented under its National Road Services Improvement Programme. In addition to Portland, the project will be taken to four other parishes: St. Thomas, St. Catherine, Manchester and Westmoreland, and will cover 1,800 kilometres of roadway at...